Other Main Traveled Roads vs While the Billy Boils: Which Should You Read?

Both live on shelves: Frontier and pioneer life, Social life and customs, Fiction

Cover of Other Main Traveled Roads

Other Main Traveled Roads Hamlin Garland · 1910 ★★★★☆ 3.7 349 pages · ≈ 6 h 28 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

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Cover of While the Billy Boils

While the Billy Boils Henry Lawson · 1905 ★★★★☆ 3.8 272 pages · ≈ 5 h 02 m · Challenging Find on Amazon

The verdict

Ratings are close: 3.7 vs 3.8 — either is a safe pick by score.

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